The Art of NASA by Piers Bizony

Author:Piers Bizony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Motorbooks
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Not so simple

A somewhat naive illustration from the mid-1970s suggested that space shuttles would be as easy to service, land, and fly as any normal aircraft. This turned out not to be true.

Smaller cargo capacity

Billion-dollar space programs need wide political support. The Pentagon did not like this version of NASA’s shuttle concept because it deemed the payload bay too small for carrying spy satellites.

The winning scheme

This is the concept for the space shuttle system from Rockwell International, the company that won approval from NASA in July 1972 and also obtained the backing of the White House.

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